Ukrainian pitical prisoner Myka Shyptur released from penal facility in Crimea

"On March 7, Myka Shyptur, the first Ukrainian pitical prisoner, was released as his term of imprisonment expired," the Association of Relatives of Pitical Prisoners of the Kremlin posted on Facebook.

After the release, employees of the Federal Migration Service of Russia took Shyptur away. The Association notes that there is no connection with him.

"It is known that Myka has all the documents needed to cross the border," the activists inform.

Myka Shyptur is a resident of Ivano-Frankivsk who participated in the Revution of Dignity in Kyiv. After the events on Independence Square, he went to Crimea, took part in a rally to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Taras Shevchenko in Sevast on March 9, 2014.

He was captured by representatives of the "Crimea’s self-defense". The occupiers in Sevast sentenced him to 10 years in prison on charges of illegal transportation of weapons and attempted murder of an official. When considering the appeal, the sentence was reduced to nine years.

Shyptur served his illegal sentence in penal facility No. 1 of Simfer in terrible sanitary conditions.